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UNiTED STATES PATENT @Flilliia JOHN JOSEPH MCGUIRE, OF YONKERS, YORK.

CONVERTIBLE AUTOMOBILE BODY.

Application filed. May 26,

T0 all whom t may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOHN J. MCGUIRE, a citizen of the United States, andresident of Yonkers, in the county of lllestchester and State of NewYork, have invented a new and Improved Convertible Automobile Body, ofwhich the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

My invention relates to a convertible body for vehicles, and moreparticularly to provide improvements over my prior construction, asillustrated in Patent #1844546, issued June 22, 1920.

More particularly my invention provides a convertible body, moreparticularly adapted for use in connection with motor vehicles, and bymeans of which a number of standard bodies may be formed within a shortinterval of time, so that the user may have available, in a single motorvehicle, a limousine or sedan type of body, a coup, roadster, or touringbody.

My present invention also has as its object, the provision of a deviceof the character specilied in which the parts may more readily beassembled or disengaged from each other, and in which the body presentedwill incorporate a steam-line7 appearance conforming to the modern typesof bodies.

Still another object of this invention is the provision of a convertiblebody which w'll cost very little more than the average enclosed body,and by means of which an owner will be enabled to instantly manipulatethe parts to form any desired type of standard body.

Further objects of my .invention will appear in the annexedspecification taken in connection with the drawings which latter presentone practical embodiment of the same, and in which;

Figure 1 illustrates the appearance of the body when the same forms aroadster.

Figure 2 shows the body having its parts disposed to provide a coup.

Figure 3 shows the parts of the body disposed so as to provide a touringcar with a Victoria top.

Figure 4 is a similar view but showing the parts arranged to present alimousine or sedan appearance.

Figure 5 is an enlarged cross sectional view of the device asillustrated in Figure 2.

Figure 6 is a fragmentary sectional side 1921. Serial No. 472,674.

view of the rear portion of the vehicle tonneau as the same appears inFigure 4.

Figures 7 and 8 sectional views taken along the lines 7-7, and Sk8 andin the direction of the arrows indicated in Figure 6.

Referring now more particularly to Fig. ures 1 to 4, it will be seenthat the reference numeral 10 indicates the hood of a motor vehicle,which includes in the usual manner wheels 11, and ruiming boards and mudguards 12, extending between the wheels and longitudinal of the body.

Referring primarily tothe limousine or sedan construction illustrated inFigures 4 and 7 to 9, it will be seen that the body 13 presents in theusual manner a pair of doors 14 and 15, also side braces 16 and 17, areprovided which are removably connected to the body 13, and which serveto support a top compr'sing two sections 18 and 19, each in turnincluding pairs of sections 20, 21; 22 and 28; these subsections beinghingedly attached to each other as has been indicated by the referencenumeral 24.

The top thus formed, extends throughout the entire length of thetonneau, and has its rear end terminating lin the form of a conventionalenclosed body providing seats 25, its forward end resting upon and beingentl l by pintles 26 affixed to the upper end or" the wind shield frame27.

The method of detachably securing the side braces 16 and 17 to the bodyand to the top has been illustrated in Figure 7, it being noted thatpins 28 are preferably utilized adjacent the points of contact of theside braces with the upper edge of the body, while the pintle 29 co-d.etes with a recess forming part of the side edge of the top, althoughobviously any sitable form of detachable connection may be utilized inthis connection.

The windows 30 are retained in their proper position by preferablyuntilizing a double channel strip 31, one channel of which co-operateswith the edge of the window 30, the second channel thereof overlying astrip 32 which is secured to a supplemental strip hingedly attached tothe body, so as to be capable of being folded flush against the same.

If the body thus formed is to be converted into a coup as in Figures 2,5 and G, this may be accomplished by swinging the entire rear section ofthe top 18, and body around the pivot pin 34, which supports the sameafter having first of all removed the side brace 16, window panels 30,and having folded the sub-section 21 of the top rearwardly flush uponthe sub-section thereof, The entire rear of the body will now lie in theposition shown in Figure 5, and in this position the rear of the bodywill constitute the upper face or the rear back of the coup as in Figure2. The seat 35 within the forward portionof the tonneau may have itsback 36 swung to the position indicated in dotted linesA in Figure 5 bymeans of the supporting member 37 provided for this purpose, and therear section 38 previously disposed within the tonneau by swinging thesame aroundits supporting' hinge 39, may be swung from the positionindicated in dotted lines in Figure 5 to that shown in fulllines. ln.this latter position it will contact. and cooperate with thesub-sections 22 and23 of the iorward portion of the root, which remainsstationary, and a coup or' extremely pleasing appearance will now bepresented as in Figure 2.

It is to be noted in this construction that l preferably brace the sidestripsv 17 and com pletely close the vehicle by utilizing side in-`serts 44 which latter may be retainedin applied position by any suitablemeans such as hooks 45 provided for-this purpose.

` If a touring body isnovv desired, the side inserts da may belremovedand stowed in any desirable place. The rear section 38 is fold;- eddownwardly and rearwardly, and the 'forward sub-sections 22 and 23 ofthe top are also folded upon themselves and disposed in the spaceprovided for this purpose to the rear of the seat back 36.

Finally ifa roadster' body is to be formed, this may be accomplished bypermitting all of the portions of the coup to remain in their now stowedpositions, and in arranging the parts of the rear body in the positionwhich they assume when a coup body is formed. Thus the appearancepresented in Figure 1 will be achieved, and an extremely neat appearingspeedster body will be provided.

Thus it will be appreciated that I have provided a convertible body bymeans of l`which all of the objects set forth in the statement ofinvention of this specification will have been accomplished and in whichan owner by purchasing a single body will be enabled to have at hisdisposal various types of cars. c

Obviously rnumerous modifications of structure might readily be resortedto vwithout in the least departing from the spirit ot my invention,which I claim as:

1. A convertible body for vehicles comprising a rear section pivotallysupported by a vehicle and a roof portion comprising a pair ot'ysub-sections forming, part off said. rear section, said sub-sectionsbeing hingedly secured to each other, a forward, root. section alsocomprising a pair of sub-sections hingedly attached to each other,theinner.- most of said sections engaging the outermost section of saidrear roof portion, said braces detacliably interposed between saidvehicle and root portion, double channel members secured adjacent vtheupper edges of said vehicle body and strips hingedly attached ad` jacentthe inner upper side edges-of the rear body portion for engaging one ofthe chan-' JOHN JOSEPH McGr''lRE.

